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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “albert abane”
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  • Children's Rights in Ghana

    Reality or Rhetoric?

    by Albert Abane, Frank Owusu Acheampong, Michael Kwodwo Adjaloo, George Oppong Ampong, Lilian Ayete-Nyampong, Kathrin Blaufuss, George Clerk, Beatrice Akua Duncan, Kate Hampshire, Kate Kilpatrick, Peter Ohene Kyei, Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Leah McMillan, Gina Porter, Afua Twum-Danso, Georgina T. Wood ...
    This is the first book that examines Ghana's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ghana being the first country to ratify the Convention, it thus fills an important gap in the literature on Ghana. The book throws a searchlight on a wide range of rights issues including children's identity, violence against children and women, child exploitation and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Moving Young Lives

    by Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Mac Mashiri ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three African countries: Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa. Wider reflections on gender, relationality, the politics of mobility, and field methodology frame the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    Edited by Nelli Piattoeva, Iveta Silova, Zsuzsa Millei ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West. Written by cultural insiders who were brought up and educated on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain - spanning from Central Europe to mainland Asia - the book offers insights into the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Life Project

    The Extraordinary Story of 70,000 Ordinary Lives

    by Helen Pearson ...
    A fascinating account of a scientific project that tracked 5 generations of children—the longest-ever-running study of human development.The lives of 70,000 people reveal the importance of our beginnings on the greater trajectory of our lives.In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would become ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Character Matters

    How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

    by Thomas Lickona ...
    Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

    Learning from across Countries

    Edited by E.K.M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Collateral Damage

    Guiding and Protecting Your Child Through the Minefield of Divorce

    by Dr. John Chirban ...
    Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the negative impact that divorce has on their children and offers ways to better serve their needs at this critical time.Approximately fifty percent of marriages in the United State fail. Add to that the increasing number of couples who never marry, have ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Disabled Children's Childhood Studies

    Critical Approaches in a Global Context

    Edited by T. Curran, K. Runswick-Cole ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research approaches. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • NCFE CACHE Level 3 Early Years Educator for the Work-Based Learner

    The only textbook for Early Years endorsed by CACHE

    by Penny Tassoni ...
    Master the knowledge and skills you need to obtain the new work-based CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) qualification.Written by bestselling author and early years expert Penny Tassoni, this is the only textbook for work-based learners endorsed by CACHE. Tassoni makes learning the key concepts on the job both easy and enjoyable. This book will support you ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Lionheart: The Real Life Guide for Adoptive Families

    by Jodie Hampshire, Selina Smyth, Tammie Flinos, Robert Harris ...
    This is the book the authors wish they had a decade ago as they started out to raise healthy and resilient adopted children – and stay sane in the process.You’ve completed the paperwork, waited and waited and then waited some more. Then, your adopted child is yours to parent. And you plan to parent them better than anyone has ever been parented before. You’ve trained for this, you’ve prepared for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Youth and Sport for Development

    The Seduction of Football in Liberia

    by Holly Collison ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Processes of development concerning reconciliation, rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for global organizations tasked with intervening in broken and divided societies after violent conflicts. What can reunite populations divided by war and violence whilst attempting to build a peaceful civil society? This book considers the impact and value of sport, notably football, ... Read more

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  • Child Law

    Children's Rights and Collective Obligations

    by Laura Westra ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Child Law starts with the question “Who is the Child?” In direct contrast to the CRC, which calls for putting the interests of the child first in all policies dealing with children, it appears that the interests of others are the major consideration de facto. In law, children’s right to protection is severely limited by the presence of a maximum age limit, with no consideration of the starting ... Read more

    $89.99 USD